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If your readers are curious, we use Lightbox 2, which is a fairly simple script that works on every browser we’ve tried.

We started with Flickr’s photo reader, but had countless problems with its lack of customization. For one thing, the reader opened automatically in a slideshow mode that changed the page every few seconds, and the viewer had to hit pause to stop it. Not the world’s biggest hurdle, but a pain nonetheless, especially when you have an all-ages comic and you want everyone from 3 to 93 to be able to read your work with no difficulties.

Our website is run on WordPress, which has a Lightbox 2 plugin that’s really easy to add:

I’m not actually sure, Scott. I don’t know of any way to change the transitions, but thanks to you, I’ve put the question to my webmaster. I’ll let you know what he comes up with. A plain cut would certainly be preferable…

My webmaster did some tinkering, and it looks like Lightbox has some page-loading problems when you try the straight cut.

With the dissolve transition, there’s a little spinning wheel to let you know the next page is loading. Unfortunately, in the straight-cut mode, you don’t even get the wheel — it just looks like your browser froze for the few seconds until the next page pops up (even though it’s a few seconds, it can seem interminable when you’re used to right-here-right-now load times).

Not sure if this is something that can be worked out or if maybe Lightbox 3 will fix it…